At any given moment, public opinion is a chaos of superstition, misinformation, and prejudice.

Religions sprang up among men to deal with the sometimes terrifying aspects of existence, to make sense out of the senseless, to explain things we find inexplicable.

History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.

That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.

You see we adults have learned how to disguise our terrible characters but a child... well, it's like a grotesque drawing of us. They should be neither seen nor heard. And no one must make another one.

Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.